https://vo.rs/tags/total-recall/Latest from the Total Recall desk at vo.rs.Hugo -- gohugo.ioenThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.Sat, 18 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000https://vo.rs/screen/total-recall-the-dream-you-cant-trust/<p>The trick of <em>Total Recall</em> is that it hides a genuinely unsettling idea inside the loudest, sweatiest action film Arnold Schwarzenegger ever headlined. Paul Verhoeven&rsquo;s 1990 picture cost somewhere north of fifty million dollars, one of the priciest films made to that point, and every dollar is on the screen as gunfire, prosthetics and Martian sky. Underneath the noise sits a question the movie never answers and never lets you forget: is any of this happening, or is Douglas Quaid a construction worker strapped to a chair, dreaming the whole adventure while a memory-implant salesman watches his vitals?</p>Sat, 18 May 2024 09:00:00 +0000